Emergency Planning

Running Head : Disaster Management

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1 . Phases of emergency planning

There four phases of emergence planning including mitigation preparedness , response and reconstruction . Mitigation phase involves efforts made by the charged management and the community in general to prevent any known and foreseeable hazard from developing into a destructive disaster . It also involves reducing the effects associated with the occurrence of a disaster . As such , this phase is different from all others as it involves development of long term measures and strategies useful

for avoiding and reducing risks in a society

When mitigation measures are applied after a disaster has occurred , they can be considered as a part of the recovery process . Mitigation strategies can be structural in the sense that they make use of the existing technology or they can be non-structural such as legislation insurance or land use planning . It is this phase that most of the efforts of emergence managers should be concentrated as this can help in avoiding most types of disasters

Another important phase of emergence planning is the preparedness phase in which emergency managers strive to develop action plans to counter the occurrence of a disaster . Most of the emergence planners spend much time and resources in this stage in an effort to prepare themselves and organize resources needed . The common measures undertaken in this phase include effective communication plans , training and maintenance of emergence services inclusive of enough human resources to deal with any disaster that may occur (Krischenbaum , 2004...